In a series of stylized, highly visual vignettes employing puppetry, poetry, and surrealism, the weird sisters from Macbeth explore the stories of women who disappear, whether by choice or force. Inspired by history, astronomy, and Shakespeare, Witches Vanish examines the nature of change and the value of human life.﻿

Eliza’s dairy farm is under siege: by Caroline, the documentary film-making, grudge-holding heifer she allows into her house to bear witness, for a fee; by Harriet, her inheritance-deprived sister; and by the bacteria lurking in the raw milk lying in wait for daughter Jamie. Woe descends on Red Robin Farm.﻿

Dear Esteemed Member of the Press:

Welcome to our 51st women empowering script here at Venus Theatre.

Venus Theatre is among the longest running women's theatre companies in the world. It is the mission of Venus to set flight to the voices of women and children with theatre for a lifetime.

This is a world premiere and features two Venus veterans, Ann Fraistat and Caty Benson.

Issues/themes: love; living with a mentally disabled child (the carer and the cared for); Domestic Violence; magic.﻿

Esme loves to sing and dance, dressing up in costumes, performing her ‘Golden Oldies’ to an imaginary audience. Today is Esme’s 36th birthday and because she has the mental age of a seven year old, she still lives with her tired and overwhelmed mother, Bessie, in a dilapidated old crumbling home, set in the rural South. Esme has a twin, not seen for quite awhile. Heartsick Bessie yearns for the twin, who’s ‘the okay one’ to come home to celebrate. This will never happen and only Esme seems to understand this. A stranger, on the run, named SJ, enters their small lives, seeking to hide from a violent partner. She encounters the extraordinary, both in the human beings who live there as well as their magic of simply ‘being’.

[Randall] gets nearly 200 scripts a year from around the world, and writers tell her that Venus... now stacks up as one of the longest continuously producing women’s theaters anywhere.

— Washington Post

Wild, dark and sad with moments of fun is how Venus Theatre founder Deb Randall describes the 2015 season for the C Street theatre. Four plays written by women will get their premieres in a season Randall has dubbed “Feral 15: Feminist Fables with No Strings Attached.”